Monday, January 26, 2015

Hollywood’s Crippling Fear of Marvel’s Storm

Okay, Hollywood.You’ve had numerous chances to get it right and you have failed
miserably.Storm is not a sweet, little
flower, eager to extend a nurturing and helping hand.She’s not the Halle Berry version (sniveling,
apprehensive) that you so aptly butchered in the X-Men films.If you ask me, your version of Storm was an
embarrassment to not only black women, but to all women.

(She looks like a Disney character.)

Have any of you even read the fucking comic books?

So now you’ve killed off the Halle Berry version only to
replace her with this pretty, young sweet thing who, I’m sure is a decent
enough actress (she didn’t butcher the role of Lifetime’s Aliyah biopic) but is
as far removed from being an African Amazonian Kick-ass Goddess as
possible.Yes.Casting Halle Berry was a terrible decision
and my beloved Storm was reduced to a fragile, castrated version of her fierce
and wonderful self.But you weren’t
listening.NOBODY liked the casting of
that actress as Storm.So you had a chance
to start over and get it right, and what did you do?????

(Pretty girl...but really? I mean... Am I the only one hoping for something different?)

You did this!You
cast a younger version of Halle Berry, overlooking the fact that the bad-ass-ness
of Storm should scare the hell out of people.Her beauty should be a raging storm of its own.She is a goddess!An African Goddess who stands 5’11” tall, and
I’d be willing to bet she weighs in at close to 200 pounds of solid muscle!She can command the fucking elements for
crying out loud.I mean—who does
that?Who does that and then walks
around like some people-pleasing beauty queen whose smile can light up a room
when she walks on set?